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Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:12 pm

Sean Pierce

God Of The Sun

Joined: Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:20 amPosts: 3068Location: A small town called Los Angeles...you may have heard of it.

sharpant wrote:

I'll be getting my orange rockerverb 50 in 4/5 weeks

WOOT WOOT!!!

Welcome to the family

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Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:15 pm

Jaden

Motorman

Joined: Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:09 pmPosts: 357Location: England

aha !
your right, I can make a guitar in days... but because ive not made one of these before I will check all fittings, hardware etc etc before I send it to be clearcoated, I generally dont start something unless I can finish it..
having said that, there will be something to see pretty soon

hope this explains some stuff for ya...

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Jaden wrote:

aha !your right, I can make a guitar in days... but because ive not made one of these before I will check all fittings, hardware etc etc before I send it to be clearcoated, I generally dont start something unless I can finish it..having said that, there will be something to see pretty soon

hope this explains some stuff for ya...

i just asked because i figured Ant may have forgotten.

Jaden, think you could give us some insight on building this guitar as you go?
It's interesting to hear from you about specific...especially since this design is a new one for you.

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Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:35 pm

Jaden

Motorman

Joined: Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:09 pmPosts: 357Location: England

chaps, its no problem..
I understand why you say I dont have to justify the time but im not answering in a defensive way mate, its just kinda factual, if I dont have all the bits I dont like to start something I cant finish.

Sean, intersting request, I wish I could do it justice really.

every guitar I make usually has an element of something new about it, this one combines every element that ive not done before.. ill try to explain but I apologise if there are gaps in the information.

so where do you start on a project like this ?
well i started with all the usual research, grabbed every picture I could and then using some reference points scaled the pictures in to a CAD program where i plotted out stuff like scale length (to check inconsistent info) and attempt to accurately place pickups, controls, replicate the pickguard and the overall shape..
so far CAD time is running into days - not hours but its all good fun.

so now we have a start the next thing to consider is the neck, I draw it out on CAD and then I create 3D surfaces to the correct thickness at those points where I do have accurate measurements.
only the rough surface will be machined, all headstock junction and body to neck sculpting is done by hand for best results.

the CAD files are taken and imported into a CAM program where I create all the toolpaths for the work that will be done on the CNC, I also draw the pickguard and create a machining file for it.

other things to consider are:
the height of the bridge - why ?
well without a bolt-on neck giving the luxary of shimming for correct neck angle and making me lazy I have to plot where the bridge height intersects the lie of the strings at its min and max positions, the neck angle can be found from there..

ive probably missed a ton of stuff there but thats a fair bit of work so far

thats all done now of course, as is the neck and body blanks all glued, cut and ready to machine..

like I say, once I have something meaningful I will send it to Ant and im sure he will share it

all for now.

J.

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Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:07 pm

luke1010

Dr. X

Joined: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:29 pmPosts: 133Location: England

sharpant wrote:

I'll be leaving University with no debts

Possibly the luckiest person alive?

Sorry to go off topic, but I just had to say that.
Can't wait to see the finished thing.

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Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:13 pm

Sean Pierce

God Of The Sun

Joined: Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:20 amPosts: 3068Location: A small town called Los Angeles...you may have heard of it.

Jaden wrote:

chaps, its no problem..I understand why you say I dont have to justify the time but im not answering in a defensive way mate, its just kinda factual, if I dont have all the bits I dont like to start something I cant finish.

Sean, intersting request, I wish I could do it justice really.

every guitar I make usually has an element of something new about it, this one combines every element that ive not done before.. ill try to explain but I apologise if there are gaps in the information.

so where do you start on a project like this ?well i started with all the usual research, grabbed every picture I could and then using some reference points scaled the pictures in to a CAD program where i plotted out stuff like scale length (to check inconsistent info) and attempt to accurately place pickups, controls, replicate the pickguard and the overall shape..so far CAD time is running into days - not hours but its all good fun.

so now we have a start the next thing to consider is the neck, I draw it out on CAD and then I create 3D surfaces to the correct thickness at those points where I do have accurate measurements.only the rough surface will be machined, all headstock junction and body to neck sculpting is done by hand for best results.

the CAD files are taken and imported into a CAM program where I create all the toolpaths for the work that will be done on the CNC, I also draw the pickguard and create a machining file for it.

other things to consider are:the height of the bridge - why ?well without a bolt-on neck giving the luxary of shimming for correct neck angle and making me lazy I have to plot where the bridge height intersects the lie of the strings at its min and max positions, the neck angle can be found from there..

ive probably missed a ton of stuff there but thats a fair bit of work so far

thats all done now of course, as is the neck and body blanks all glued, cut and ready to machine..

like I say, once I have something meaningful I will send it to Ant and im sure he will share it

all for now.

J.

i enjoyed that...very cool!
i can't wait to see what comes of this!

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Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:25 am

sharpant

Superhero

Joined: Wed Sep 03, 2008 4:00 pmPosts: 1654Location: London UK

Ok guys

Jaden just sent me these test pictures, I think they look incredible already
I cut these today to test all my drawing files, they worked fine..

Ill cut your real guitar soon

Once the bits get here you can see that it’s a reasonably quick job to get it ready.

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